She helped invent the riot grrrl movement, galvanized audiences as leader of the Bikini Kill punk band, gave an interview in a ski mask after being burned by mainstream media, came up with the phrase "smells like Teen Spirit" for Nirvana pal Kurt Cobain and inspired female fans to start their own groups, write their own songs and produce their own magazines.

With "The Punk Singer," documentary maker Sini Anderson plumbs the mystery that baffled rock-loving feminists in 2005, when Hanna broke up her Le Tigre trio.

"Nobody really knew why Kathleen quit singing," Anderson says of Hanna, who kept quiet about having contracted Lyme disease. "In the film, Kathleen comes to the conclusion that it was easier to say, 'I have nothing left to say' than it was to deal with the fact that she had no control over what was happening with her body."

Anderson, who co-founded San Francisco spoken-word performance troupe Sister Spit in 1993, became friends with Hanna several years before starting on the film.

"Kathleen and I were kind of in parallel movements," she says. "We shared a best friend, and that's how we eventually met."

The documentary takes a more intimate turn in the New York home Hanna shares with her husband, Adam Horovitz, where the singer talks about the illness that prompted her retirement.

"The most shocking part of the story is that here you have this total bad-ass," Anderson says, "and it seems almost impossible that something the size of a poppy seed could stop that person in her tracks."

'Anchorman 2' goes on a marketing blitz

"Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues" does not open until Dec. 20, but the movie's marketing team is already working overtime to hype the return of Will Ferrell's goofy Ron Burgundy character. First, Ferrell, in character as Burgundy, hawked his own variety of Scotch Scotch Scotch ice cream in partnership with Ben & Jerry's. Then he appeared with a horse in offbeat TV commercials.

And to top it off, Ron Burgundy anchors a new exhibition at Washington, D.C.'s, Newseum. "Anchorman: The Exhibit" features props from the original 2004 comedy. In character as the dim-witted TV announcer, Ferrell/Burgundy says in a Newseum statement, "I'm literally trapped in a glass case of emotion."

A blond Dorothy in 'Wizard of Oz' book

When they were boys, Jay Scarfone and William Stillman collected "Wizard of Oz" artifacts to bide their time in between annual telecasts of the 1939 movie. Today, their temperature-controlled collection numbers roughly 10,000 photos, posters, props and costumes. A sampling of those artifacts takes center stage in the hardcover book "The Wizard of Oz: The Official 75th Anniversary Companion" (Harper Design).

The authors spent five years scouring flea markets for fresh finds for the picture book.

"We wanted to find new information and new photographic images that would excite other 'Oz' fans," Scarfone says. "When you think you've seen it all, it's amazing when something new and different pops up."

Case in point: The book, which comes with a packet of facsimile Oz art pieces, includes a preproduction test shot of Judy Garland as Dorothy wearing a blond wig.

"It was a challenge to find a color photograph of the blond Dorothy," Stillman says. "It took us three months of negotiating to acquire that picture."

The authors document many factoids about the production.

"The studio assigned a personal trainer to Judy Garland," Scarfone says. "After hours, she sort of kept tabs on Judy: Was she sneaking food? MGM was infamous for having spies assigned to monitor their most valuable players." {sbox}